Sarcasm

(84 votes)   I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(74 votes)   Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(73 votes)   Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(71 votes)   By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(69 votes)   Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Gore Vidal
1925-, American Novelist, Critic

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(64 votes)   I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(61 votes)   Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

Paul Klee
1879-1940, Swiss Artist

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(59 votes)   Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(59 votes)   It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(59 votes)   What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

Claud Cockburn
1904-1981, British Author, Journalist

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(55 votes)   Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.

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